The Best Resorts in Cascais

Cascais was a fishing village once, which feels hard to believe when you're poolside at a resort with a lagoon pool, a spa, and a golf course minutes away. The Sheraton here does honest resort work for families, couples, and Lisbon weekenders: quietly contemporary rooms, suites with full kitchens that spread into proper residences, and one Atlantic seafood restaurant, which is all you need when half the coast is on your doorstep.

Twenty minutes from Lisbon on a four-hundred-acre coastal estate, this minimalist resort earns its reputation by doing very little to its interiors, letting floor-to-ceiling windows do the work instead. All 142 rooms start large by any reasonable standard, and the balcony on the top suite runs bigger than most Manhattan hotel rooms. Golf course, equestrian center, seawater pools, and a full spa fill out the grounds without feeling bolted on.